Lux Pascal’s American Dream | Vanity Fair

“Now that I really think about it, I’m working with the first person that taught me what good television was,” she says of Murphy, naming Nip/Tuck as a seminal watch. Ford, too, has been a touchstone: Pascal can walk you through the trailer for A Single Man frame by frame. Seeing it as a tween, “I thought, that is the type of cinema I want to be a part of. It’s… kind of gaggy.” She laughs.

At The Juilliard School, Pascal was challenged to unlearn some of the training she’d…